Posts Tagged ‘textbooks’

Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free

Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of online collaboration in generating content. Textbooks are now on the same route and here are a few interesting resources for those [...]

Amazom Kindle, a Student Version

Update: According to Stephen Downes (comment below), the rumors about the Amazon Kindle student version might be that, just rumors…    As seen on TechCrunch, Amazon is considering the release of their eBook reader, Kindle, in a version made speciffically having college students in mind. The student version of the Kindle will probably include a [...]